The Merging History of the Milky Way Disk

2000/12/12 by Rosemary F. Ġ. Wyse, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Wyse, Rosemary F. G. · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0012270

10 pages, LaTeX, three embedded figures, uses newpasp.sty. To appear in Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies, ASP Conference series, eds J.G. Funes and E.M. Corsini

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Abstract

The stellar populations of the stellar halo and of the thick disk of the Milky Way reveal much about the merging history that our Galaxy, a typical large disk galaxy, has experienced. Our current understanding, described here, implies a rather quiet evolution for the disk, back to redshifts of order 2.

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